A study of right dislocation in Cantonese.

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by Cheung Yam Leung.Thesis submitted in: August, 1997.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-137).ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.ivROMANIZATION SCHEME --- p.viCOPYRIGHT --- p.viABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS --- p.viiABSTRACT --- p.viiiChapter CHAPTER 1 --- THEORETICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF DISLOCATION IN LINGUISTIC STUDY --- p.1Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- COMPARISON OF RD IN CANTONESE AND ENGLISH --- p.5Chapter 2.1 --- Structure of RD in Cantonese and English --- p.5Chapter 2.1.1 --- Types of Right Dislocation --- p.5Chapter 2.1.2 --- Dislocated String and Co-referential Linking --- p.10Chapter 2.2 --- Approaches to RD --- p.13Chapter 2.2.1 --- Functional Approaches --- p.13Chapter 2.2.2 --- Syntactic Approaches --- p.17Chapter 2.3 --- Summary --- p.19Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- SYNTAX OF CANTONESE RIGHT DISLOCATION --- p.21Chapter 3.1 --- Dislocation Types --- p.22Chapter 3.1.1 --- Dislocation Type I: XP in Preclausal Position --- p.22Chapter 3.1.2 --- Dislocation Type II: Subj. + Predrear (+SP) + Predfront --- p.28Chapter 3.1.3 --- Dislocation Type III: Sentence Fragment --- p.32Chapter 3.2 --- Sentence Particles --- p.34Chapter 3.2.1 --- Function of SPs in Dislocation --- p.35Chapter 3.2.2 --- Prohibition of Dual SPs in Dislocation --- p.36Chapter 3.2.3 --- Co-occurrence Restriction between SP and Other Elements --- p.38Chapter 3.3 --- Why a Single Syntactic Unit? --- p.42Chapter 3.3.1 --- Afterthought is not a Panacea --- p.43Chapter 3.3.2 --- Syntactic Dependency in RD --- p.45Chapter 3.4 --- Why Leftward Movement? --- p.55Chapter 3.4.1 --- Base-generation Approach --- p.56Chapter 3.4.2 --- Rightward Movement Approach --- p.57Chapter 3.4.3 --- Leftward Movement Approach --- p.60Chapter 3.4.4 --- Dislocation vs. Topicalization --- p.62Chapter 3.5 --- Sru's (1992) Proposal --- p.67Chapter 3.5.1 --- Phrasal Constituent Preposing --- p.67Chapter 3.5.2 --- Substitution vs. Adjunction --- p.70Chapter 3.5.3 --- Maximal Attachment Level --- p.71Chapter 3.5.4 --- Subjacency --- p.72Chapter 3.6 --- Syntactic Representation of Dislocation Structure --- p.73Chapter 3.7 --- Summary --- p.83Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- CONSTRAINTS ON DISLOCATION STRUCTURE --- p.84Chapter 4.1 --- Coordinate Structure Constraint --- p.84Chapter 4.2 --- DislocatiON-Adjacency Constraint --- p.86Chapter 4.2.1 --- Prohibition of Non-D-Adjacent Components in Dislocation --- p.86Chapter 4.2.2 --- "Dislocation Structure, Topicalization and the Syntax of SP" --- p.91Chapter 4.3 --- Focus --- p.94Chapter 4.3.1 --- Question-Answer Test --- p.96Chapter 4.3.2 --- Wh-Phrase --- p.100Chapter 4.3.3 --- "Focus Adverb´ؤZing hai "" Only""" --- p.104Chapter 4.3.4 --- Focus Sentence Particles --- p.106Chapter 4.4 --- Negation --- p.108Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- DISLOCATION STRUCTURE AND MINIMALIST ASSUMPTIONS --- p.114Chapter 5.1 --- Review of Reconstruction --- p.114Chapter 5.2 --- Reconstruction in Dislocation Structure --- p.115Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- CONCLUSION. --- p.122ENDNOTE --- p.131BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.13